{"id":19920,"date":"2015-03-22T02:04:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T09:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=19920"},"modified":"2015-03-22T02:04:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T09:04:51","slug":"shred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/shred\/","title":{"rendered":"Shred!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/shredi.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/shred.html\">Shred-it Day<\/a> volunteers\u00a0left to right: Ed Pinchiff- Planning Commission; Glenda Lee; Cathy Meschuk; JD Miles. \u00a0With Spring Cleaning comes the question: Which documents can I\u00a0shred? Here are recommendations from tax experts:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHRED AFTER 1 MONTH<\/strong><br \/>\nBank deposit slips, once funds appear in your account<br \/>\nATM receipts once you record the transaction<br \/>\nReceipts for things you bought on a credit card, once you get your statement, unless you need it for a return or a warranty<br \/>\nCredit card statement, unless it has a tax-related expense on it<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHRED AFTER 1 YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Utility bills\u00a0(except for\u00a0business deductions such as a home office)<br \/>\nPaycheck stubs, after you&#8217;ve reconciled them with your W2<br \/>\nBank statements (except for\u00a0copies of canceled checks needed for tax purposes)<br \/>\nBrokerage statements, unless they show a trade for a gain or a loss for tax purposes<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHRED AFTER 7 YEARS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>W2s, 1099s, tax-reporting statements, and proof of charitable contributions\u00a0(the\u00a0IRS generally\u00a0audits you within three years unless there&#8217;s a chance you underreported income or it suspects fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shred-it Day volunteers\u00a0left to right: Ed Pinchiff- Planning Commission; Glenda Lee; Cathy Meschuk; JD Miles. \u00a0With Spring Cleaning comes the question: Which documents can I\u00a0shred? Here are recommendations from tax experts: SHRED AFTER 1 MONTH Bank deposit slips, once funds appear in your account ATM receipts once you record the transaction Receipts for things you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}